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Topic: Where would be a good place online

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC started this discussion 3 years ago #104,176

To ask for help in finding books of a certain genre?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #1,173,023

Let me guess: True crime?

Z-lib is usually pretty good for not-new-to-press books.

If you could be more specific, maybe I can help you track it down.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,024

I mean, amazon has the most books in the world.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,026

@1,173,023 (B)
I'm looking for books on Japan's population issues and aging population, and the causes and things done to combat it

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) double-posted this 3 years ago, 38 seconds later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,027

@1,173,024 (C)
Yes I've checked Amazon by using their search engine and Japan with other keywords

Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 22 seconds later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,028

@1,173,026 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Translated into English, I assume?

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,029

@previous (B)
Yes definitely. Non fiction

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,030

I'm guessing that the number of English language books on the aging Japanese population is low. Apart from Amazon as above you might want to try Google Scholar which is good for finding academic papers if you don't have a university to gain access through. Google scholar has a knack for finding papers which normally require payment to view but are placed in folders which have permissions set to anybody.

Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,031

@1,173,029 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Meh. Best I find is this but the full study, translated from the Chinese, is hard to come by. If you had a specific author in mind, it might be easier to track down.

EDIT: Also, that's a Chinese study from the 80s. So...

(Edited 2 minutes later.)

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,033

@1,173,030 (D)
I see. I will definitely try searching Google scholar tomorrow

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) double-posted this 3 years ago, 16 seconds later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,034

@1,173,031 (B)
Haha thank you for trying

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 16 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,035

@1,173,029 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
scholar.google.com might have that sort of thing, but you have to pay for the full articles and books

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,036

@1,173,030 (D)
Also, the papers and articles that Google Scholar doesn't find links to pdfs, I can typically find on Library Genesis (https://libgen.rs). Libgen is exceptionally good when it comes to finding non-fiction books, at least in the fields I'm interested in.

Having said that, I don't use libgen to find articles and books per say, but to get pdfs of them once I've discovered them elsewhere.

@OP
Why are you interested in this?

Anonymous E double-posted this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,037

Literally every single textbook I've wanted to find since I've discovered Library Genesis, I've found. Except one and it was published in the past year and I assume will be up soon enough. I wish I had learned about it sooner.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 11 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,076

@1,173,035 (C)
Can you search it without paying to see if they have what you want?

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) double-posted this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,077

@1,173,036 (E)
I like reading about cultural phenomenon that differs from my own. I also like reading about state enforced death and a movie about this came out at Sudance called Plan 74

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) triple-posted this 3 years ago, 41 seconds later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,078

@1,173,037 (E)
Is it an app? How much is it?

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 52 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,079

@1,173,076 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
yes I think so

Anonymous C double-posted this 3 years ago, 38 seconds later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,080

@1,173,077 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
What do you mean by state enforced death?

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 50 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,088

@previous (C)
Have you read Children of Men? The Quietus. Or like in Logans Run

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,090

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Yes, but Japan does that??

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,093

@previous (C)
No. But they have a rapidly aging populace who are under replacement levels of births, and they have Japanese politicians asking the elderly to die rather than take up healthcare resources.
Also a movie by a Japanese women just came out at Sundance called Plan 75. It's a fictional tale of the Japanese government paying old people to be exterminated rather than become burdens

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,094

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
The government is asking old people to just die??

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,095

@previous (C)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese

Anonymous C replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,096

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Geez

boof joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 27 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,098

In the story Logan's Run, you had to get killed at 30! And there was this weird robot guy!

Anonymous E replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,117

@1,173,078 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
It is a free website.

Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere.[2]

Libgen provides access to copyrighted works, such as PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal. Publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of internet piracy. However, others assert that academic publishers unfairly benefit from government-funded research, written by researchers, many of whom are employed by public universities, and that Libgen is helping to disseminate research that should be freely available in the first place.[4]

Anonymous E double-posted this 3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,119

@1,173,095 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/
... ... ...

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 32 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,124

@1,173,117 (E)
Very informative. Thank you

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) double-posted this 3 years ago, 15 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,125

@1,173,119 (E)
Right???

Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 8 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,201

@1,173,034 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
If you do happen to want scientific journal articles, then SciHub is kind of like a PirateBay for academic publishing. You may have to google around a little bit for it should you need it later, as it keeps getting shut down and moving often.

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 9 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,173,270

@previous (B)
Thank you. I appreciate all help that you and others have provided
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